Join YESI and the Department for Environment and Geography for a co-hosted seminar with Prof Phoebe Barnard.
We’re at a crossroads of humanity and civilisation – but which way to turn? How do we enact dramatic systems change while keeping our hands steady on the tiller of our societies? What are the roles and limitations of science, and what proactive steps can we in civil society and academia take to lead a civilisational shift? How can we best support and collaborate with governments to govern wisely in unpredictable and often risky times?
Ecosystems and biodiversity scientist, policy and governance strategist Prof Phoebe Barnard brings insights from three decades of senior work in global organisations, national governments, and nonprofit institutes to the conversations that we should be holding globally now about our present and future.
She encourages questions that we should be asking – about what kinds of societies we want from now on, how we might get there from here, and how we can proactively shift a self-interested global civilisation and economy to a wiser, kinder and much more sustainable one, without lurching reactively into anarchy, autocracy and violence.
The hybrid event is to be held on Tuesday 6th October from 12pm – 1pm in person in Room ARC/014, the Alan Maynard Auditorium, Alcuin Research Resource Centre, Campus West, University of York and online. Please book via this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfq6HJRWlNyR3jisvf36fnjNZ2tLoaxAora86HkHS-NWkgY7Q/viewform.
The room is wheelchair accessible however there is no hearing loop.